T\TENTY-FIVE YEARS

As reported in The California Lumber

Walter Scrim, of Los Angeles, president of the Philippine Mahogany Association, writes in this issue concerning the right of Philippine producers of hardwood to call their product "Philippine Mahogany," a right recently enjoined by the Federal Trade Commission.

Fred Palmer, veteran distributor of California pine lumber announces that he is closing his wholesale lumber ofifice in San Francisco and moving to Mexico to engage in the manufacture of lumber with a big new sawmill at El Salto.

Dr. Wilson Compton, secretary of Manufacturers Association, addressed and redwood lumber manufacturers in San Francisco on August 18. He is trade extension program.

Nearly 500 annual Bay Kendall Dell, tests for men, drinking, and the National Lumber a large group of pine at a special meeting sponsoring a lumber lumbermen and their families attended the District Hoo-Hoo picnic on August 22, at near San Francisco. There were athletic conwomen and children, baseball games, eating, dancing.

AGO Merchant Sept.

TODAY 15, 1926

One of the worst lumber fires in California history destroyed most of the big wholesale yard of the Coos Bay Lumber Company, at Bay Point, California, on July 16.

Kenneth Smith, who has been in charge of the offices of the Long-Bell Lumber Company, at Philadelphia, for the past year, has returned to Los Angeles where he has accepted the position of sales manager for the Southern California division of the E. K. Wood Lumber Company.

"Long-Bell Practices Forestry" is the name of a new booklet issued by the Long-Bell Lumber Company, telling and illustrating methods being employed by that concern for regrowing forests in California and Oregon.

The mill and logging operations of the Magalia Optimo Lumber Company, at Chico, California, suffered a $100,000 fire on August 9.

The steam schooner "Daisy," of fir lumber, sank at her dock in at San Francisco, on August 9.

loaded with 780.000 feet the China Basin Channel.